Jake and the Dynamo Chapter 5

We heard you like dinosaurs, and we heard you like space, so we put dinosaurs in your space and made space dinosaurs ... and then we had them attack a city full of magical girls.

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Comments

[howard035]

Now I ship Jake and Miss Percy.

[Al-1701]

Disqus are being idiots, so I can't comment on the chapter itself.

Being gored might hurt, Jake, but it can't suck that much less than your life is now.

And what's with the abysmally low threshold for becoming incapable of marrying? I've already accepted Urbanopolis has a collective IQ of -3 (and hope some vestige of humanity has somehow made it to Tau Ceti are just waiting for this whole mess to be over), but they continue to astound me with their nonsensical thinking.

[D G D Davidson]

3971943

Ah, good ol' Disqus. The best system at present, probably, but certainly not perfect.

And what's with the abysmally low threshold for becoming incapable of marrying?

Manga/anime-influenced humor, of course. Have you never seen a cartoon in which a girl gets maybe casually brushed by a guy and then cries that no one will marry her? I have. It's like a running gag in the medium. So I turned it into a triple for this chapter.

Admittedly, it's arguably out of character for Dana, but it's definitely in character for Miss Percy.

3971639

Now I ship Jake and Miss Percy.

That's just wrong, dude.

[Al-1701]

3972662 I must watch the wrong anime. Though, I don't watch much out of Japan anymore.

[D G D Davidson]

3972839

Off the top of my head:

Sailor Moon had an episode in which that nerd kid whose name I forget gets possessed by the bad guys and he proceeds to do such evil, world-destroying activities as flipping up the desperately single schoolteacher's skirt, after which she sobs that no man will marry her.

Maison Ikkoku has a chapter in which a teenage girl entraps Godai in an equipment closet at school (that sounds familiar ...) and when he stumbles into her cries that no man will every marry her.

Hayate the Combat Butler has a hot meganeko maid. After Hayate carries her in his arms to rescue her from the monster of the week, she later shoves him away when he sits down next to her and says she "wouldn't want to be ruined for marriage."

[Al-1701]

3972939 The Sailor Moon one I remember, but their teacher would on more than occasion gush about marrying and lament her not being married, so I just figured it was her latest outburst.

[D G D Davidson]

3973466

Desperately single school teachers seem to be a thing in anime. That's a gag they added to the Sailor Moon cartoon, which is not in the manga, and I can think of a few other examples of teachers desperate to get married. The funniest is Mr. Cat from Princess Tutu.

[Al-1701]

3974301 Mr. Cat gave me the creeps. Probably the intended effect. Though, he did find a mate in the end.

[D G D Davidson]

3974510

Really? I thought he was hilarious. He's my second favorite character after Duck herself.

[Al-1701]

3974696 It was funny at first, but after it reached running gag status my laugh became a little more forced.

Ironically, when I was coming up with my own magical girl idea, I went the opposite route. The girls' Homeroom and English teacher (who is secretly a shark man and their familiar) is a divorcee. He even jokes his ex took the entire Western Hemisphere in the divorce.